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    Trump's New Foreign Broadcasting CEO Fires News Chiefs, Raising Fears Of Meddling

    On Wednesday, President Trump's new appointee as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media dismissed the directors of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and other government outlets.
    by David Folkenflik Jun 18, 2020 5 minutes

    President Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Michael Pack, showed up to work Wednesday for the first time after being approved by the U.S. Senate two weeks earlier.

    His words to staff were affirming. His actions were anything but.

    Pack swiftly sidelined most of the agency's senior leadership by stripping them of their authority. He also fired the chiefs of the government-sponsored broadcast networks for foreign audiences which his agency oversees, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; Radio Free Asia; Office of Cuban Broadcasting, which oversees Radio and Television Martí; and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, which runs Alhurra and Radio Sawa.

    The two-top officials at Voice of America resigned days earlier in anticipation of Pack's arrival.

    Pack dissolved advisory boards over each of the networks and placed his own aides above

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